Here's a free link to my article on this topic:
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Often we address anxiety as an emotional problem, because it can feel so uncomfortable, unsettling, and discombobulating. Chronic anxiety, and sympathetic nervous system over activation, are associated with a host of medical problems. Despite the need to reduce or eliminate anxiety, emotions are often challenging to work with, and emotional states make it harder to apply cognitive tools.
An alternative approach is to consider anxiety disorders as problems of attention. Anxiety involves undue attention being directed at a potentially bad event or outcome, even if the risk of such an occurrence is fairly low.
Strategies that help a person shift attention from what might happen in the future, to what they want to be acting on now, can be powerfully helpful in alleviating anxiety.
References:
Attentional Biases in Human Anxiety 2022
www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents 2021
www.cambridge....
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task
www.sciencedir...
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